In the past month, the Bronx district attorney's office declined to prosecute a number of disturbing crimes.
Among them:
- A crazed woman slashed a man in his stomach, but dodged attempted murder charges because of an uncooperative victim. A cop source said prosecutors did "less than nothing" to gain his trust.
- Officers found two men sitting on a park bench reeking of pot with a large bag of crack cocaine at their feet. Prosecutors deemed there was not enough evidence to prove the drugs belonged to them, records show.
Steven Reed, a spokesman for Johnson, attributed the office's high case rejection rate to "rigorous screening."
"Charging decisions are based on the facts of the case and the law," he said. "The deprivation of an individual's liberty is something that we take very seriously."
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